De Ganay v. De Ganay

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered November 18, 1998, dismissing this action for divorce on the ground of res judicata, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Prior proceedings have established that prior judgments of the French courts dissolving the parties’ marriage and liquidating the marital estate are entitled to enforcement in New York as a matter of comity (De Ganay v De Ganay, 261 AD2d 175, lv denied 93 NY2d 818). Plaintiff, in this action, now seeks equitable distribution of certain property not specifically addressed in those judgments, but the motion…